Digital Skills Workshops
Please click on the Book button to book a place on any of our up-coming Digital Skills Workshops. If you have any questions, please just email the LDC and ask.
List of workshops
Getting the most of Microsoft 365 (online session)
OneDrive
Word tools (dictate, share document, easy formatting, proofreading tools)
Outlook - email, calendar and To Do lists
You will be using your student Microsoft 365 account to access your emails, using Word most of all for your assignments (essays, reports, etc.), as well as OneDrive to store and access your files. Knowing how to make the most of the software and tools available to you can save you time and effort and make it easier to manage your studies.
Wednesday 31st January 10am-11am
Dissertation formatting (campus drop-in session)
Watch the video tutorials by clicking on the link above. You will first be asked a few questions about the type of document you are creating and you will be lead to a page with a list short of video tutorials tailored to what you need.
The drop-in is available for you to come and ask additional questions, sort out any issues you may have with your document and fix any potential bugs.
You do not need to book this session, feel free to drop-in anytime during this time on that date in room A304
Thursday 8th February 10am-12noon
Excel for basic data analysis and preparation for SPSS (on campus session)
Entering data
Quick calculations
Filtering and sorting
Manipulating data
Presenting your data visually
Getting to know how to enter and manipulate data in Excel is a very useful skill that helps not just with getting to know your data, but also with a basic initial analysis. You will also be shown how to use Excel to prepare your data for further analysis with SPSS.
SPSS and importing data from Excel (on campus session)
How SPSS works – variables and values
Selecting parts of the data file (filtering)
Graphs and charts
Recoding variables
How to do frequency statistics, crosstabulation, etc.
Importing data from Excel files into SPSS and auto-coding it
This session will only cover the use of SPSS to do basic data manipulation and will not cover statistics or result interpretation.
Monday 19th February 10am-12noon
Creating effective presentations with PowerPoint (on campus session)
Preparing a presentation – general content and structure
Structuring your slides by using different slide layout and multilevel lists
Using graphics – images and diagrams
Slide Themes and Design ideas
Running and controlling the presentation
When required to create a presentation, PowerPoint is by far the most popular and easy to use software for that. This session will show you how to plan and create well structured and visually attractive presentations that will also enable you to present with confidence. Using PowerPoint 365, you can also create a shared PowerPoint presentation that you can work on together on a group presentation.
Friday 1st March 10am-12noon
Academic posters (on campus session)
Please watch the video in the link above before the session
Q&A and discussion session
You will be sent a link to a 30min video to watch in advance of the session and you will have an opportunity to ask questions and participate in a discussion.